Employers’ 2007 health care costs are projected to increase 7.7%, year over year. This equates to an average health cost per employee of $8,340 per year. Passive, “siloed” employee health solutions are not providing acceptable outcomes because they are not producing needed results.

Employers are not the only one’s feeling financial stress from skyrocketing health care costs. Every employees’ total health care costs, which include employee contribution and out-of-pocket costs, continue to rise dramatically even though the vast majority of health care costs can be attributed to less than 20% of the workforce.

An effective strategic health management plan, properly implemented and managed, is a business asset with direct bottom line implications. The reason is that an onsite wellness and health plan will guide and help control each employee’s health paradigms with measurable and repeatable improvements, resulting in lowered health care costs.